Chill out with the misanthropy. The kind and good and enlightened have always been the minority, at every point in history.
You're condemning the entire species for the dark elements that have always existed. You think people should just give up fighting for human rights and knowledge because anti-intellectualism and bigotry are at a temporary high tide? Collect your balls and fucking do something to make the world better, whether it's working with others to support a cause you believe in, or investing in yourself so that you can be a positive, constructive presence in the world.
Take a walk through a museum or read some damn books. A rich history of art and literature and philosophy and science are waiting for you. If you're prepared to say our collective achievements are worthless, it's time to take a step back and get in touch with the things that make life worth living.
I needed this. I felt we as Americans walked a tight rope of "doing the right thing" with problems we have by being proactive or reactive to assuming we'll just be apathetic. While that's still true, if this country goes to flames and the human experiment is a dud, at the very least I will aim to live for compatibility, truth, and reality "as is", not the warped mungofucko tumor that apparently is the cultural narrative of America post-Orange Con Man.
It's not just you guys. First Brexit, now this. I believe France and Germany will be next. Humans were a mistake, we are nothing but trash. Climate change fuckery can't come soon enough to wipe us out, and having deniers in powerful positions will just accelerate the process.
I am feeling a big disappointment in the human race for years now, believing in something good is useless, as a collective we are shit.
I've had time to reflect on a quote that summarizes the problems we face, even if those voted for Trump have beguiled themselves into thinking bridges will be made over the holes.
"When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over." - Thich Naht Hanh
We, myself included, are quick to call Trump supporters pavement tasting fucking idiots, but fail to realize what they are merely amounts to an amalgamation, a cultivation, a product of prior causes.
We should begin to understand that by asking
why have things gotten the way they have. Let us ignore the people even on the ballot for office for a moment. When people say this country is better off than X period, can a feeling, a perception, a conceptualization one adheres to, really fall when facing a fact? Only with a right mind can it. Ask the precariat in this country, those both failed by Republicans and Democrats alike, how their lives have truly been supported when they
feel they are drowning. We may call them delusional, but that doesn't help the problem.
We can talk about how Obama's legacy was one where he tried to help people, and that he did. But we also cannot dismiss those who feel it's not enough. Take coal miners or manufacturing jobs. Are these both in dissolution? Yes, as they should be.
But are we really helping these people being dissolved from their livelihoods? No, we're not.
Many of us accept progress, change, Capitalism, whatever you want to call it, and engage in apathy here. Instead of assuring a floor, to be compassionate and aid those on a platform falling for them, we have told them they're on their own. Their own suffering, their own precarious has been fueled by this very same culture that claims to care for them. And this is because the care, the actions of compassion, the aid, is not far-reaching enough. We say things are fine, we look at productivity numbers and fingers, but that doesn't change the dissolution. Much like Michael Moore has said, places like Flint Michigan have been all but abandoned by our framework. Do these people feel the boons this culture has gotten collectively? Obviously not. They can't even drink
water without anxiety. Nothing ever came back for what they lost. This vote seems to fuel a great deal of people feeling like Flint. They might not actually be, but they feel it.
What happens to people who suffer, be it through delusion or reality, and this culture in some way has failed them? Their suffering, their hostility, their conflict, is now shared in others,
to others. It doesn't matter if their revolt is to someone who can help, or in this case a man, platform, and party literally inept at doing so, but that anger grows and blows up somewhere.
How we deal with these people is the difficult thing. I have no answers. I'm sure many of them think God and all of that righteousness nonsense is on their side here, but the key is to show them futility. Show these people how Trump can't
actually assure the jobs he deliberately lies about coming back. Obliterate the stones in their hands that they confuse for truth.
Their suffering has now led to our suffering, and the only solution is to find something accountable to reality, to "what is." Unfortunately, we have elected people too engaged with "what should be" or "what must be" to really be honest about reality. Too much subjective evocation leads to too much conflict with objective reality, which is humankind's
core problem throughout history. But, to link it to the present scenario...
- The jobs people are desperate to depend upon and
that entire social order is in decay.
- They're looking to hang on because this entire system has told them this is what they need to survive, failing to even propose an alternative.
- It fails to give them answers when it falls for them.
This is where we need to be, to be clear about this. Anything less is precisely why people harp on the durrhurrjobs claims with trade and all of that other nonsense. They're looking for a floor, but instead this culture has built a plank, and for many people, that's become a cage.
Unfortunately, the candidate most likely to have dealt with this was Barack Obama, who has had the balls to admit all of this. Hillary has been averse (because the public is averse; no mainstream alternative = this is all we got in the eyes of many), and Trump, per usual, has lied and said unfruths.
People chose the candidate most prone to appeal to their emotions, fears, and concerns, even if he's perhaps the most inept person in human history to deal with them. And he's poised to obliterate massive swaths of this very same culture in a futile attempt to make his false promises true.
